St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-11
THE CRIMES BILL.
1t VIII Be Pushed Under the Gag
Rule.

LONDON, June 10.-In the commons
this evening Smith moved the resolu-
ton previously announced requesting
that at 10 p. m. on the 18th inst, the
chairman forthwith put the question on
any motion, amendment or proposal
touching a clause of the crimes bill then
under discussion, then on the clause it
self, finally on each remaining clause.
He urged that the step was forced upon
the government by continued Obstruc-
ton. 1t was absolutely necessary for
the dignity and efficiency of the house
that deliberate attempts to prevent the
progress of business be defeated. This
was now the fourth month of the ses-
sion, and practically nothing had been
done. The whole course of legislation
had been stopped. The government de-
the rights of minority and respect
shown for the traditions of liberty and
freedom attached to the institutions of
the country [derisive Parnellite laugh
teri, but it was undoubtedly the duty of
the government, in circumstances with
out parallel in the history of parliament,
to call upon the house to take measures
to prevent the minority from setting at
defiance the controlling power of the
majority. 1t was impossible for the
government, representing the majority,
to yield to the obstruction of the minor
ity. The government might be dis
placed by an adverse vote, and then be
bound to appeal to the country, but
. while sustained by majority of the
house they must carry on the business
of the country. The debates over the
crimes bill had become a traveSty, bring
ing ridicule, disgrace and contempt
upon parliament. He appealed to the
house to support the government in try
ing to restore order in the proceedings.
[Cheers.
GLADSTONE
said that longer notice should have been
given of this important motion. The
present state of business and the entire
paralysis of parliament had caused in
tense dissatisfaction throughout the
country, but the position had been
brought about by the government them
selves. Cries of "hear, hear" They
had been pursuing false and evil
policy of coercion with the justification
pleaded on former occasions. They had
disregarded all the usages and tradi-
lions of parliament in the conduct of the
measure which they had under the
crimes bill introduced, measure di-
rected against combination apart from
gest to the government that rational
mode to expedite the bill would be to
make it temporary instead of permanent
and ito strike out all provisions touching
combination apart from crime, assuring
! the Irish tenants of the same protection
/ and respect for their land strikes as was
given English artisans in their labor
strikes. [Cheers and cries of ''no."] If
the government rejected that remedy
/ and had no other to propose, the often
I sive character of the bill would be re-
tanned in full force. He did not wish to
create difficulty by offering an Opposi-
|; ton which he knew to be Intellectual.
\ He would therefore content himself
/, with protesting against the course now
proposed.
i PARNELL. SAID
, he could not understand the faulty of
/ the government in rushing blindfold
along road which they had already
1 seen would lead to the greatest disorder
in Ireland. The government speakers
harped on the theme of obstruction
AS a matter Of fact the Irish members
had not lifted one voice against any
measure except the coercion bill, which
they were bound to resist to the utmost.
The cry of construction was not gen.
uine when raised by men who did not
desire public business. Let the govern
ment proceed with the real business of
the nation instead of wasting time over
the crimes bill applying to a nation
where crime was admittedly at a mini
mum. He concluded by moving an
amendment that the house de-
cline to sanction the resolution
limiting the freedom of debate and
assailing the rights of minorities. 4
GCheers.l Sir William Vernon Harcourt
warned the government that its pro-
posal might be used by a future govern
ment as precedent for carrying home
rule bill i'm fortnight, and that other
measures might be forced through in
the same way. Imagine, he said, some
government proposing church discs
Enlistment bill, urging as everything
for and against disestabli shment what